Code:
bash-3.1$ ps ax | grep polling
3539 ? S 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 2 sec)
bash-3.1$
What I've done is mount it to stop the polling....maybe set something in fstab for that? This is my fstab currently:
Code:
/dev/sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda3 /vista ntfs-3g umask=000 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user,rw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
EDIT: I do have XP in Virtualbox, but didn't expect much performance for Civ IV out of it....I run some windows programs that way, and share files.